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    Bum's Restaurant

    4.4 (49 reviews)
    InexpensiveBarbeque
    Closed 5:30 am - 7:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    They are huge slices of French toast! And taste amazing! I love Yoders but honestly these guys are comparable and we didn't have a wait on a Saturday morning! Very helpful and polite staff. Overall clean establishment. HIGHLY RECOMMEND THEIR BREAKFAST

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    Andy F.

    Good barbecue with a large selection of sides, served cafeteria style. Pork was very juicy and slightly smoky. More pulled than chopped and sitting in a hotel pan on the steam table. My preference is the drier presentation, where the barbecue is waiting for customers on the chopping block. Place was filled with locals. Owner was very friendly and said hello to each guest.

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    Joe F.

    Stopped in here during the Ayden collard festival to top off a hearty appetite. I saw the fresh ribs being restocked on the line and my mouth started to water. I sat down with my $10 plate of ribs and bit into acold slab of meat. They looked and tasted pretty good but would have been much better if they were at least luke warm. Needless to say I will not be back since attention to detail was not important to the food servers. I was never asked how my meal was which raised another "Red Flag" for not achieving customer satisfaction.

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    Fred B.

    Bum's doesn't get nearly the recognition this fine old place deserves for the quality of its Eastern style Pork Barbecue, or it's outstanding Country Cooking items, and especially the Cabbage Collards. I've been coming to Bum's since the mid 60's, as much for the country cooking as the wood-cooked, chopped barbecue. I've never left disappointed or less than completely full. We were coming back home from a short visit to New Bern, and we were going for a "twofer" - a sandwich and bulk BBQ buy from Skylight Inn, and then on to a full blown, proper sit down stuffing at Bum's, with the emphasis on the country cooking, but throw in some pig, as well. The plan worked perfectly, Skylight had just opened, and we were in and out like cattle thieves, all that we wanted there, we acquired there. Hit Bum's abot 10:45, and lunch was available, the steamtable slots were filling up - I love it when a plan comes together! Alice went with Chicken & Pastry, Cabbage Collards, and some kind of strang orange tubar, Sweet Potatoes I think. I opted for my Bum's Usual - Combo of Fried Chicken, Chopped Pork BBQ with Slaw and Brunswick Stew, and we would, of course, be finishing with the world's second best Banana Pudding - my grandmother's knew no peers! As usual, the food was excellent - well, except for the sweet potatoes, tasted like somebody should have made a pie out of them. The Pork BBQ served here is much less renown than that at its neighbor, the afore mentioned Skylight Inn, but this is world class Eastern NC style PIG! The Chicken & Pastry, the Fried Chicken, the Brunswick Stew, and the Collards were as good as ever. Don't even ask about the 'Nanner' Pudding. We took home 2 pounds of BBQ, a quart of Collards, a quart of Chicken & Pastry, and a pint of Brunswick Stew - winter's coming, gotta fill the larder - well, we don't actually have a larder, but the freezer works well. I don't know if any of this was gluten, but DAMN it was good!

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    Great Breakfast good service.Dennis and his crew are great. Will continue to visit often

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    Excellent food and the price is good. We love eating there. Highly recommend! Yeah!

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    I'm from out of town and my son who lives in Raleigh really wanted me to go here so we drove almost…read morean hr and a half to go here, and I'm so glad we did. It was a Thursday and very busy but no so busy we had to wait very long. Just good to see all kind of people really for some BBQ. The food was fantastic and I loved the sides. I'm a big Cole slaw fan and this was very finely shopped up slaw with amazing flavor. They leave the crispy skin in the pork to give you these little yummy surprises as you eat. Plenty of room in the dinning area and a covered outdoor picnic table area.

    Turned out I didn't care for most of the sides…read more December Friday evening 5pm. The place was empty. Chicken- they were out of dark meat. Chicken breast half was moist and tasty. I did like their sauce and this part of my meal. Coleslaw- too sweet for me. Nice texture. Potato salad- didn't care for it. Slightly to sweet. Corn cake- sorry but what is this burnt dense piece of square? I couldn't finish it. Banana pudding- had good flavor but I really struggled with the mushy texture and brown color here. Pork Bbq- hubby reported good taste and texture but was very room temp. Could have stood to be hotter. I guess sitting out on the wood block doesn't help. For me, not a great value. When you only enjoyed 1 of the 5 things you ate, that is a low rating automatically. Service- friendly and quick. As soon as we sat down, there was a homeless guy begging for food. This was upsetting because we don't know this individual or knew what intentions he had. Just came out of nowhere into the dining room. Not sure if the employees noticed while they were cleaning up the kitchen. Play back the camera feed. What if I was alone without my hubby. Very unsettling!!!!! We won't be back,

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    Food is usually good. Service is friendly and typically fast. Dining room has a nice beach feel to…read moreit, which is nice for a seafood place.

    Never again.. and THIS time we mean it. We decided to get an…read moreearly eat out supper because of my busy schedule. We arrived about 5:00 and it was not busy. We were seated and immediately ignored. I noticed that several of the tables surrounding us had not been cleaned well as ours had not. It was a good 10 minutes before someone noticed our table and asked if we were ok. We had no drinks or anything so my husband told him that no one had come to take our drink order. So the guy apologized profusely and a few minutes later we had drinks and some hush puppies and we gave our order... and we waited and waited and waited literally more than 30 minutes. Eventually the same guy appeared and told us that they had just started on our order because the kitchen had been busy with an unusually large takeout order. A while later someone came out with food but it wasn't what we'd ordered so they took it back to the kitchen and started over. The guy came out and again apologized profusely and promised us a huge discount and free desserts after the meal. FINALLY part of what we ordered arrived and we decided to just try to eat and get outta there. The food we got was terrible. My flounder tasted like the oil it had been cooked in and their usual slaw tasted heavily salted. It was very bad. We were given a discount on the food but not the drinks and were not charged for the food we ordered but were not served. The desserts that had been offered we passed on just to get outta there... Still what we paid was FAR too dear for what we ate. I know the quality of Mayflower has diminished since we've been occasionally frequenting it over the past 30 years but this was the last time we will EVER try it again.

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